I lied for Tyson and Hughie Fury For Cash says Preston Farmer. Tyson Fury and Hughie Fury may be in trouble, and Tyson Fury’s victory lap may be curtailed following a fresh and shocking allegation that a member of his team offered to bribe a Preston Farmer, Martin Carefoot, £25,000 to provide a false alibi to the UK Anti-Doping Agency (UKAD).
According to Dailymail, Tyson Fury’s boxing career may be in jeopardy following the revelation that his team member offered a Preston Farmer £25,000 to lie to the UKAD that Tyson Fury failed the drug test because he provided him with the wild boar meat which in turn led to his drug failure in 2015.
The substance of the Bombshell Revelation
According to the Dailymail, the Lancashire Farmer argued that he was asked to lie to the UKAD that he supplied the wild boar to Tyson and Hughie Fury, and that he never supplied such meat to the Furys.
Mr Carefoot claimed that he was offered £25,000 for providing such alibi and that he signed two witness statements affirming that he supplied the produce to the Furys and sent it to the UKAD through the lawyers- Morgan Sports Law.
The significance of this allegation is that Tyson Fury and Hughie Fury were acquitted of the banned steroid nandrolone charges in 2015 on the strength of the alibi provided by the Preston Farmer that he supplied the uncastrated wild boar meat.
This led to the UKAD giving them a backdated two years sentence which in turn enables them to resume their boxing careers in 2017.
The Mail on Sunday confirmed that the UK Anti-Doping has been informed about the startling new revelation.
Neither Tyson Fury nor Hughie Fury have responded to request for comments.
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UKAD Now in the Loop
Mail on Sunday provided a statement issued by UKAD with respect to the revelation as follows:
“We will always review any potential evidence in relation to any anti-doping offence, and take investigatory action where necessary.
If anyone has information that could be of interest to UKAD and its investigations on any matter, we urge them to contact us.”
The Mail on Sunday can also assert that UKAD has not been able to confirm whether Mr Carefoot’s declaration was used as part of the investigation.
Pressure is now on UKAD to reopen the investigation, all in the name of justice and public interest, given the fact that about £600,000 were spent on the initial investigation.
Jolting of Memory
The problems of the Furys started in February 2015 when Tyson and Hughie tested positive for metabolites of nandrolone after their respective fights that month against Christian Hammer and Andriy Rudenko.
Crucially, they were not charged until 16 months later in June 2016, by which point Tyson Fury was unified champion of the world after beating Wladimir Klitschko in November 2015.
With that charge being investigated by UK Anti-Doping, and the consumption of wild boar used as central to the Furys’ explanation, Carefoot claims he was visited in November 2016 at his farmhouse near Preston by a friend who knew a member of the Fury entourage.
Carefoot alleges he was asked to lie by saying he sourced the boar for the Furys, despite having never delivered boar to them.
In his submission to the UKAD he wrote: ‘I supplied a range of animal meats and offal to Team Fury, including wild boar and pigs’.
Carefoot now claims those statements were lies. Mail on Sunday can reliably gather.
Mr Carefoot said: ‘I have never kept wild boar. I have never killed a wild boar.’ In compensation for his dubious effort, he was paid £25,000.
Carefoot told The Mail on Sunday: ‘I just went along with it, and they always dangled this carrot that I was going to get paid. When things got quite serious, they offered me a sum of money before it went to court in London, and a sum of money after. I went along with them because, I suppose, in my own way I was just helping them out.’
The case was eventually settled by a compromise between the Furys and UKAD before it could be heard by the National Anti-Doping Panel in December 2017.
Partners in Crime
Mr Carefoot was asked if he was willing to commit perjury for the Furys, he replied that:
‘I suppose if I’d had to. I was in too deep. They were dangling this carrot. I thought ‘‘you’re going to get 25 grand for this, it’s not a hanging matter’’. So, I went along with it.’
Carefoot, who says he was never paid the money he claims he was promised, added: ‘I feel sick of the lies and deceit and the public need to know the truth.’
Frank Warren’s Reaction
Frank Warren lean toward self-exoneration by trying to extricate himself from the situation. He told The Mail on Sunday that: ‘Back then, I was not promoting Tyson. These allegations are totally unfounded and libelous. You are dealing with a man (Carefoot) who is an admitted liar.’
‘Did Tyson ever have a conversation with this man? Which supposed member of Fury’s team did have a conversation with this man? You are relying on the word of a liar. Did he lie back then or is he lying now? This is a man who was willing to commit perjury.’
